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I've saved my progress as Next missing link.ai.…So called, because this guy seems to be evolving before our eyes into some sort…of next-generation monocled creature.…Anyway, we do need to fix him up a little bit, because he has got a lot of…problems, especially in this hand.…I'm going to reconcile these problems by pressing Ctrl+Y or Cmd+Y on the Mac…to switch to the Outline mode.…That way we can see exactly where the path outlines aren't lining up properly.…Now you may notice here, that we lost a finger.…That's because this guy is a blend.…

We're blending between these two path outlines in order to create a…third outline in between.…So anyway, I'm going to grab my White Arrow tool.…That's how we're going to do most of this work, and I'm going to scrunch this…finger forward quite a bit.…Change the control handles.…Go ahead and make them shorter, and then drag this end point, so it snaps into…alignment with the corner right there.…Then I might go ahead and drag this guy up.…You know what else I want to do, just for the fun of it.…

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Released

11/30/2010

In Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic features in Illustrator CS5. This course demonstrates how to apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. The course covers Live Trace, Live Paint, and Live Color, as well as symbols, gradients, exporting, and integration with Photoshop. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Tracing a pixel-based image

Sketching and drawing for Illustrator

Creating and editing gradients

Creating multi-colored blends

Creating seamlessly repeating tile patterns

Creating interlocking artwork with Live Paint

Designing advanced type effects

Recoloring artwork with color harmonies

Making the most of symbols

Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop

Using transparency, blend modes, and opacity masks

Skill Level Intermediate

14h 53m

Duration

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Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?

A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.

Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US

Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."